I arrived back to my Kentucky home mid-January to find a couple of odd things. It was obvious we'd had a lot of rain. I slipped and skidded down to the berm, and I didn't get very far before I noticed the gifting crate was not in sight!

Whoa! It's been up for over four years, and never once has it been down. Upon examining the weed-eater line we'd used to put the crate up in the air, it definitely had been chewed through.

Notice the red piece of a peanut butter cap at the bottom left. No empty jars in sight... I examined the lid. There were no teeth marks or scratches on it. It looks like it would take a lot of force to crack a lid like this....

​So I put the crate back up... added a brand new jar of peanut butter, and three apples.

The next morning the crate was down again... the contents were spilled on the forest floor, the peanut butter remained but two apples were missing. Definitely Critters. I decided to strap the crate to the smallish tree on the berm and be done, since it was obvious the weed wacker line wasn't keeping the critters from the goodies!

(Pictured Below)

I added another new jar and two more apples to the crate.

Fast forward to Jan 24th and I discover one of the jars has been half eaten, but is still in the crate... The lid was approximately 15 feet away is cracked. NO teeth marks OR scratches?

​Below are two short videos, one of the lid and the other of the inside of the jar

The next day, the other jar of peanut butter was out of the crate... I took a walk below the berm and found it with the lid on. No bite marks or scratches on the lid, but I did find some scratches on the body of the jar.

I was about to put it back in the crate, when something told me to have a look inside the jar. I unscrewed the lid and discovered this ...

I really don't know what to think. Would something unscrew this lid...stick it's tongue in the jar a few times and screw the lid back on??? And if so....why drop it 25 yards from the berm?

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Hi Sabilla,
The squatches here would break the lid by punching a hole in it, and then poke a stick in the hole to get the peanut butter. This happened here in Washington State at a gifting site. Then, the exact same thing happened at Matthew Johnsons southern Oregon site.

What it looks like to me is that the jar was dropped and landed on its lid, slamming the peanut butter against the lid. Then it was turned back upright, and the peanut butter settled back to the bottom of the jar.